Murfreesboro mosque construction was delayed five years by protests and lawsuits

Evidence

One such copycat anti-mosque campaign took place in 2010 in the southern college town of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, near the campus of Middle Tennessee State University. Anti-Muslim protestors here similarly denounced plans for a large mosque proposed near a residential subdivision. The faux controversy began when hundreds of angry anti-Muslim protesters turned out for a contentious county board meeting on the proposed Murfreesboro mosque project. The protests and subsequent court challenges ended up delaying the construction of the mosque for nearly five years. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 570

Categorization

• XREF: Copycat-campaign pattern corroborates the reader’s thesis that the Ground Zero Mosque became a transnational template. — connects to: Zoning laws were rewritten to block mosque construction after multiple applications — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 155; Murfreesboro mosque builders endured arson, vandalism, and industry blacklisting — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 506
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 570

Related

• Murfreesboro mosque builders endured arson, vandalism, and industry blacklisting (similarity 0.87)
• Zoning laws were rewritten to block mosque construction after multiple applications (similarity 0.82)
• A Tennessee mosque faced mobs, arson, boycotts, and vandalism over seven years. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Zoning laws were rewritten to block mosque construction after multiple applications #expands (0.45) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 155